Thursday, July 5, 2012

Air France pilots 'lost control'

Air France pilots 'lost control'


Air France pilots 'lost control'

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:46 AM PDT

Technical failure and human error led to the loss of an Air France flight over the Atlantic in June 2009, according to the final report into the crash.

Eurozone rates at new record low

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:13 AM PDT

The European Central Bank has reduced its key interest rate from 1% to 0.75%, a record low for the eurozone.

Premier League to use technology

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:46 AM PDT

Goal-line technology could be introduced in the Premier League during the 2012-13 season after Fifa approves two systems.

Army to lose 17 units amid cuts

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:48 AM PDT

The Army will lose 17 major units under cuts that will see it shed 20,000 regular soldiers by 2020, the defence secretary announces.

HP patents see-through screens

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:04 AM PDT

Hewlett Packard wins patent status for a way to create transparent computer displays, which could be used on windscreens or windows.

Ireland in 85bn-euro bill sale

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:18 AM PDT

The Republic of Ireland, which received an 85bn-euro bailout in 2010, returns to the capital markets after a near two-year absence.

Wikileaks releasing 'Syria files'

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:11 AM PDT

Wikileaks begins releasing more than two million emails it dubs the "Syria files", promising embarrassment for both Syria and its opponents.

Japan nuclear crisis 'man-made'

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:09 AM PDT

The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster", a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report.

Six children die on US holiday

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:10 AM PDT

Six US children die in two separate incidents in New York and Iowa during Fourth of July celebrations.

Somalia faces 'new hunger crisis'

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:18 AM PDT

Poor rains and continuing conflict in Somalia are threatening the recovery from last year's famine, the charity Save the Children warns.

Costa captain 'guided by divine'

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:01 AM PDT

The captain of the shipwrecked Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia defends his actions in an open letter, saying he was led by a 'divine hand'.

Nature's big picture: The prince's frog

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:40 PM PDT

A newly discovered tree frog from Ecuador has been named after Prince Charles in recognition of his charity work.

VIDEO: Crash pilots' 'sequence of human errors'

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:36 AM PDT

The final report is due to be released into the crash of an Air France airliner in June 2009, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil, killing 228 people.

VIDEO: Laser show to mark London's Shard

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 10:52 PM PDT

The Shard will be officially inaugurated later today with a light show across London

VIDEO: Whale freed from shark net

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:06 AM PDT

A humpback whale has been rescued after it became entangled in shark nets off Australia's coast.

AUDIO: UN: 'Syria violence escalating'

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:46 AM PDT

The head of the UN observer mission in Syria has said monitors cannot resume their work in the country until there is an end to the bloodshed.

VIDEO: Louisiana monks in coffin casket row

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:22 AM PDT

In Louisiana, monks face opposition to their bid to sell hand-made coffins from an alliance of funeral directors and embalmers.

VIDEO: Claims of 'vouchers for votes' in Mexico

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:55 AM PDT

There are claims in Mexico that people were given prepaid gift vouchers in exchange for favourable votes in Sunday's presidential elections.

VIDEO: US celebrates July 4 amid heatwave

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:52 PM PDT

As the United States celebrates July 4, Americans are struggling to keep cool with extremely hot temperatures gripping parts of the country.

China's central bank cuts rates

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:08 AM PDT

The Chinese central bank cuts its benchmark interest rate for the second time in two months, in a bid to arrest slowing economic growth.

Bank in extra £50bn stimulus move

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:37 AM PDT

The Bank of England announces it will pump a further £50bn into the UK economy through its quantitative easing programme.

Android phones 'used for botnet'

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:14 AM PDT

Smartphones running on Google's Android platform are hijacked by a botnet, a Microsoft researcher says.

Google hired UK ex-data official

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:12 AM PDT

A freedom of information request reveals that a senior official who worked at the UK's data privacy watchdog while it investigated Google was later hired by the firm.

Uncle producer Felton dies at 99

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:30 AM PDT

Norman Felton, the British-born producer of US TV shows The Man From Uncle and Dr Kildare, dies at 99.

Media reaction to new BBC boss

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:45 AM PDT

A look at the media reaction to George Entwistle's appointment as the BBC's new director general.

Fight on for wind power subsidies

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:04 PM PDT

Wind power firms in the UK warn they may take the government to court if they get caught in a political row over subsidies.

South Korea moots 'scientific' whaling

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT

South Korea proposes resuming whaling as part scientific research programmes similar to Japan's, in a move widely criticised at the IWC.

Smoking mothers' embryos 'slower'

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:49 PM PDT

Time-lapse photography has shown that the embryos of smoking women develop more slowly.

Brain scan remote controls robot

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:55 AM PDT

People who are paralysed or suffer locked-in syndrome could soon be wandering around the world via a robot avatar.

Williams & Radwanska reach final

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:35 AM PDT

Serena Williams will meet third seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the women's singles final at Wimbledon on Saturday.

Cavendish outsprinted by Greipel

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:33 AM PDT

Mark Cavendish is well beaten by Andre Greipel in a sprint finish in the fifth stage of the Tour de France.

Spain finds precious antique book

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:11 AM PDT

A priceless 12th Century religious manuscript, the Codex Calixtinus, is found in northern Spain a year after it was stolen.

US lifeguard fired for saving man

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:06 PM PDT

A lifeguard who left his section of a Florida beach to help rescue a man from drowning is given the sack for breaking company rules.

UN puts off Mali force decision

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:50 AM PDT

The UN Security Council says it is not ready to back a West African intervention force in Mali but says the destruction of shrines could be a war crime.

Nato trucks cross Pakistan border

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:37 AM PDT

Nato supply trucks cross into Afghanistan for the first time in seven months after the US and Pakistan resolve a damaging row.

Six arrested in anti-terror raids

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:11 AM PDT

Five men and a woman are arrested and nine addresses across London are searched as part of an intelligence-led anti-terrorism operation.

Mexico faces partial vote recount

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:09 AM PDT

Mexico orders a recount of ballots cast at more than half the polling stations in the presidential election after inconsistencies in vote tallies.

Election material burned in Libya

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:37 AM PDT

A fire destroys election materials in Libya, days ahead of the country's first elections following the fall of Col Muammar Gaddafi.

George Zimmerman bail set at $1m

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:50 AM PDT

Bail for George Zimmerman, a Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer charged with the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin, is reset at $1m.

Fake cigarette caused M6 alert

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:11 AM PDT

A police operation which saw armed officers swoop on a coach on the M6 Toll motorway was prompted by a fake cigarette, it emerges.

Man charged with terror offences

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:25 AM PDT

A 20-year-old man from Burnley, arrested last year, is charged with six terrorism offences, Lancashire Police say.

RAF Tornado crash victims named

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:12 AM PDT

Three airmen who died after two Tornado GR4 jets crashed in the Moray Firth are named by the defence secretary.

Police probe Bloody Sunday deaths

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:27 AM PDT

The police are to launch a murder investigation into the deaths of 13 people shot dead by soldiers in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in 1972.

Your pictures: Plastic

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:07 AM PDT

Readers pictures on the theme plastic

Muons, gluons and the poetry of particles

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:08 PM PDT

Higgs, Bose and the poetry of subatomic particles

Russia's 'persecuted' and jailed businessmen

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:32 PM PDT

Why does Russia lock up so many businessmen?

The hijacked rebellion in Timbuktu

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:23 AM PDT

The Islamist fighters changing the face of ancient Timbuktu

South Korea's whaling: Faux and cons

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:05 AM PDT

Is science really behind South Korea's whaling bid?

Day in pictures: 5 July 2012

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:52 AM PDT

24 hours of news photos from around the world

The view from inside Syria's propaganda machine

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:20 PM PDT

An insider tells how Syrian TV invents the news

China's biggest business journalist

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:38 PM PDT

How a business journalist became a megastar

What happened to Britain's volcanoes?

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:09 PM PDT

How Britain's landscape was shaped by lava

VIDEO: Learning curve: How authoritarian regimes adapt

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:44 PM PDT

How technology has altered dictatorships

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